• Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    …the gov:t didn’t *decide* how to distribute them, because it isn’t allowed to force people to live somewhere.

    …several instances where immigrants were bussed to northern Sweden to house them…they refused to get off the busses.

    So, let me get this straight, the government non-forcefully drove a bunch of immigrants, that had come from the subtropics, to the arctic circle, who refused to get off the buses, and you don’t find anything a little ‘on the nose’ about that?

    Sounds like they had a bloody good reason for being upset, and I can’t think of any reason why they’d be in the wrong.

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      8 months ago

      Is there parts of Sweden that are subtropical? Can’t say the situation is good for anyone involved there, however the way you word it just makes it sound like the immigrants and extremely ungrateful to have been given a home at all?

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      8 months ago

      I think it was to house asylum seekers and they are housed in facilities around the country to share the burden of it.

      And they had come to Sweden to seek asylum. Not sure what they expected. It’s not exactly the Riviera.

      • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 months ago

        I’m pretty sure their only expectation was to not die in a war. That doesn’t make it right to bus a bunch of people to the arctic nowhere and expect them to just live. If the bus driver was being threatened, was there no government workers to receive them and at least help them somewhat?

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          8 months ago

          IIRC it wasn’t government just ferrying off a bunch of immigrants to the middle of nowhere and said “you live here now” but instead sent some asylum seekers there for the duration of the process to confirm (or deny) their asylum. And asylum seekers at least where I live, for the duration of the processing of their status, live in special facilities. This happened to be in a place they didn’t like, which imo makes their attitude seem a lot less understandable.